"Hehe, Brother Xiangfang, do you and I still need to deceive each other? Ling Zun has been to Daliang for a short time, right? But anyone with a discerning eye can see that Daliang is not in a good mood now, and the people of Shatuo in Hedong are overwhelmed by Daliang, how can our Daye Righteous Army tie their fate to Daliang?" Ruan Zhonghe's words were full of confidence and firmness, "Only the Pengcheng County Duke is the object of our Daye Rebellion's allegiance, isn't it?"

Ruan Zhonghe's words blocked Chao Xiangfang with nothing to say, and he didn't dare to resolutely refute the other party at this time, because he knew that his father's original intention was to serve Huaiyou, but he just wanted to boil the price, but he never made it true.

This Ruan brother was really decisive enough, and he fell to Huaiyou so quickly, and Huaiyou's coming momentum was so fierce that he didn't give himself any room at all.

"Boom!" There was a loud noise from the east, it should be that the fortress wall was knocked down, followed by a chaotic shouting and noise, just when Chao Xiangfang and Ruan Zhong were still fighting, a figure had already rushed over from the darkness, "Second brother, the Huaiyou army has attacked, we can't stop it!"

"Withdraw!" Chao Xiangfang shook his stab, waved his hand, signaled his younger brother to take over his opponent, and then immediately issued an order for all departments to retreat in an orderly manner.

In fact, when the Ruan clan and the Huaiyou coalition army attacked the fortress, Chao Xiangfang already had a premonition that this Liangshan could not be defended.

The Ruan family and Huaiyou have joined hands, and the geographical advantage of this Liangshan is gone, although it is not possible to talk about the inside and outside, but the Ruan family's fort is adjacent to the Chao family fort, and the Ruan family is more familiar with the terrain and terrain, and the strength and weakness of the truth can not be hidden from people at all, so it is naturally invincible.

Therefore, while still maintaining a firm posture, Chao Xiangfang also made preparations for retreat.

In the dark night, maybe the Ruan army still has a favorable location, but for the Huaiyou army, they definitely don't dare to pursue at will, and it is already their greatest wish to be able to take Liangshan.

In the dark, the two sides were still fighting endlessly, but the prepared Chao army still retreated along the fortress wall in an orderly manner, and under the organization of the Chao brothers, it was not yet to launch a counterattack to contain the pursuit of the Ruan army and the Huaiyou army, and the battle gradually came to an end.

It was a great regret to Qin Han that the attack on Yuncheng had missed.

The reaction of the Chao family army was faster than expected, and when the Huaiyou army arrived at the city of Yuncheng, the city walls of Yuncheng were brightly lit, and a large number of troops were entering the city at the water gate, apparently reinforced from the lake.

Seeing this situation, Li Tong decisively terminated the night attack, in this case, the enemy has already prepared, and if he wants to attack again, his own army is not enough.

Originally, he wanted to take advantage of the chaos brought about by the news that Liangshan was conquered to attack in chaos, but the enemy seemed to have known the news that Liangshan had been conquered, and even responded in advance, which also surprised Li Tong The swift reaction of the Chao family's army.

"Well done!" Jiang Feng nodded with great satisfaction, shaking the letter in his hand, "Qin Han is decisive, Li Tong is also sensible, in this case, it will be more than worth the loss to fight Yuncheng, and there is no need to lose more people and horses to take Yuncheng." ”

"Oh, when does the king think the Chao family will come and surrender?" Mei Guo asked with a smile: "The strength of the Ruan family is not weak, the three brothers of the Ruan family are also dragons and tigers in Juye Ze, the five tigers of the Chao family are also good, and Chao Dasheng is even more of an old and spicy character, if you can bring these people under your command, the northern waterways will be in the hands of the county prince!"

"Ziyu is so optimistic about the giant wild water bandits?" Jiang Feng asked with a smile.

"Jungong, the northern waterway is nothing more than two lines, one line is on the big river, and the first line is the canal and canal connecting the Central Plains and Jianghuai. "Mei Guo is born on the water, naturally the waterway situation of the entire Central Plains Jianghuai is very familiar, "the river on the river due to the decay of Hebei for many years, Hedong and Liang and military confrontation, in fact, this originally prosperous water channel has been somewhat declined, then only the canal and canal are left." ”

"The canal doesn't seem to mean much to us. Yang Kan's eyes were a little wandering, and he said playfully: "Unless we can take Yongcheng and control Songzhou." ”

The canal meandered northwest from Linhuai, Sizhou Prefecture, through the bridge into Yongcheng in Bozhou, and entered Songzhou, whether it was Huaiyou (Wuning), which occupied Xusi and Sizhou, or Yuanjia, who controlled Bozhou, there were no restrictions on this canal.

Guy is the main passage from Jianghuai to the Central Plains, as long as you don't want to completely tear your face with the beam, no one will do this kind of thing that hurts others and is not beneficial to themselves.

Even Huaibei, who was at odds with Daliang back then, could only cut off Caoyun intermittently, and in a sense, he didn't dare to attract all of Daliang's anger to himself.

"Hehe, Qilang still has a longing for Bozhou?" Wang Miao also laughed and quipped: "The county prince has a plan, Bozhou will not be in our field of vision in the short term, um, or does Qilang think that Songzhou should change hands?"

Of course, Yang Kan understood what the meaning behind Wang Miao's ridiculous words was, shook his head, and said a little depressedly: "I didn't expect that after only a few years of walking, Daliang would actually fall into Si, and the Shatuo people would succeed in the north one after another, and there would be no one in Hebei in ten, and even Shaanzhou would be lost." ”

The information from the north, the Liang in the battle with Hedong was extremely unsmooth, Huaizhou collapsed, the Tianwu army lost its division and lost its ground, retreated to Heyin, Hedong Iron Cavalry crossed Wangwu Mountain, Wangwu, Jiyuan, Heqing, Heyang four counties of Henan Province were all lost, Hedong Iron Cavalry has been free to gallop north of the Great River, Hedong Iron Cavalry has also had such a situation in the past, but later they all retreated to Shanbei, but this time, the situation is no longer than before, Shatuo people no longer take Zhongtiao Mountain - Wangwu Mountain - The Taihang Mountains were bounded by a large river, which is a very dangerous sign.

Once the advantage of Hedong is formed on this top, as long as the river is crossed, the entire beam is a flat river, and there is no barrier that can stop the iron cavalry in Hedong, only to use the body of a soldier to contend with it.

The problem is that in Shaanzhou, the Hedong Iron Cavalry broke through Maojin and connected the entire Shaanzhou and Yuzhou together, firmly controlled in their hands.

This means that the Hedong Iron Cavalry can no longer cross the river on the Heqing (Mengjin) line in the west, but can pounce directly from west to east, which is like a sharp sword hanging high, which can be cut down at any time, so that the entire Liang has to be frightened.

For this reason, Daliang had to gather heavy troops to defend on the front line of Michi, although it temporarily blocked the eastward movement of the Hedong Iron Cavalry, but this huge strategic disadvantage has made Daliang a little breathless.

This is also why Daliang frequently transferred troops from the south and east, and even the Shangyunxi Department was forcibly drawn to the Heyin line to prevent the Hedong Iron Cavalry from breaking through the natural danger of the river.

It can be said that the current Liang can't take care of Zhu Mao's seizure of Jeju at all, for them, to hold the Henan Mansion in the west, and at the same time to prevent the Hedong Iron Cavalry from breaking through the big river from Zhengzhou and Huazhou, completely curb the increasingly fierce offensive of the Hedong Iron Cavalry, and survive this year, this is the top priority.

However, this did not solve the problem facing Daliang, who now showed signs of turning his attention to the three towns of Heshuo to the east, especially Daliang's ally, Wei Bojun.

Once Hedong wins the victory against Wei Bo's army, then it can break through from the front line of Weizhou, which will be even more dangerous for the already stretched beam.

"The strength of the beam is not formed in the past two years, in fact, it should have been at least more than ten years, but it was covered up and pasted well before, and everyone didn't care, just saw the bright side, but after fighting one battle after another, it couldn't be covered up just by smearing and mounting, and in the end it was still to be exposed. Wang Miao shook his head, "Daliang is now like the previous Huaibei, maybe it will be broken as soon as it is poked, but the people of Shatuo in Hedong have not found the weakest place of Daliang for the time being, and once they find it, they are afraid that they will be beaten into a sieve and full of holes." ”

Wang Miao's words were very polite, but they were facts, which made Yang Kan depressed but unable to refute them.

Even in a sense, the fall of Daliang is an opportunity for an emerging feudal lord like Huaiyou, otherwise how could Daliang tolerate Huaiyou's rampant encroachment in Yanyun, Huaibei?

"It's really not a good time for the big beams to fall. Cui Shang continued, "We should hope that Daliang can hold on, preferably for three or five years, Daliang should let the three towns of Heshuo move to reduce their pressure, and on the side of the Tuyuhun people, the party people, Daliang should be able to exert influence, and we can't let the Shatuo people show off their power in the Central Plains so smoothly." ”

"The messenger of the Shatuo people has crossed the river and entered Jeju, and it is estimated that they will arrive in Xuzhou in a few days, and it is estimated that Nanyang and Caizhou should have received the same message from Hedong as we do. Jiang Feng stroked his forehead thoughtfully, "Do you think I should hide in Luzhou?"

From Huaiyou's point of view, of course, I don't want to see the Shatuo people enter the Central Plains, and now this kind of balanced situation is what Huaiyou wants to see the most.

But if the girder collapses, will Huaiyou be the biggest profiteering? Obviously not, how significant is it to win a few states and counties? The risk will be infinite.

At that time, Huaiyou will face the Shatuo people, and even the Khitan people will be stimulated to go south, and the situation that Huaiyou has worked so hard to create may change drastically.

It's not appropriate to refuse, without Huaiyou, the Shatuo people may also enter the Central Plains, and then Huaiyou will become its main enemy, and what about Caizhou and Nanyang?

If Huaiyou refuses, but Nanyang and Caizhou echo Hedong, will Huaiyou become the public enemy of the three families in the future?

Plus the Khitans, could Huaiyou still be able to bear it at that time?

Either choice is inappropriate and fraught with danger, but there is no way to avoid it.